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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal ValuePrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in 2013. Dollars in millions
Published February 14, 2014

2013
Rank
2012
Rank
Firm Deals Deal value
1 2 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 5 $5,116.7
2 1 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 6 3,918.5
3 4 Kirkland & Ellis LLP 2 2,002.2
4 13 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP* 2 1,995.1
5 11 Hunton & Williams LLP* 19 1,287.8
6 7 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* 11 1,272.9
7 69 Silver Freedman & Taff L.LP* 7 1,244.5
8 55 Troutman Sanders LLP 3 940.1
9 NR Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP 1 881.0
  NR Carey y Cía 1 881.0
  8 Jones Day 1 881.0
12 18 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP* 7 848.2
13 40 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP* 8 732.4
14 93 Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP 9 621.0
15 66 LeClairRyan 2 497.7
16 66 Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP 1 494.7
17 26 Haynie Rake & Repass P.C.* 5 450.7
18 137 Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC 3 425.2
19 94 Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP 2 375.8
20 92 Breyer & Associates PC 4 352.2
21 21 Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP* 14 329.7
22 NR Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP 2 329.0
23 NR Dover Dixon Horne PLLC 5 311.9
24 10 Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick P.C.* 11 286.0
25 31 Lane Powell P.C. 2 274.9
26 108 Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP 5 253.2
27 5 Norton Rose Fulbright LLP 1 243.9
28 32 Smith Mackinnon PA* 6 229.7
29 NR Atkins Hollmann Jones Peacock Lewis & Lyon Inc. 1 220.0
30 79 Kutak Rock LLP 3 210.4
31 56 Reed Smith LLP 2 187.3
32 42 King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP* 4 161.5
33 NR Phelps Dunbar LLP 3 160.2
34 NR Bybel Rutledge LLP* 2 155.9
  NR Pepper Hamilton LLP 1 155.9
36 NR Varnum LLP 1 154.5
  NR Warner Norcross & Judd LLP 1 154.5
38 111 Vedder Price P.C.* 5 154.2
39 45 Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP.* 6 147.3
40 53 Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP* 10 133.3
41 71 Bingham McCutchen LLP* 4 132.9
42 60 Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP* 5 123.7
43 50 DLA Piper LLP (US)* 3 122.3
44 NR Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP 1 114.7
45 62 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP* 5 112.8
46 NR Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP 3 111.1
47 NR Barrett & McNagny LLP 1 108.0
  36 Krieg DeVault LLP* 2 108.0
49 24 Patton Boggs LLP 3 104.7
50 47 Shutts & Bowen LLP* 3 104.2
51 NR Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA 3 101.5
52 15 Graham & Dunn PC 3 95.2
53 NR Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP 3 92.6
54 87 Bryan Cave LLP* 7 90.8
55 73 Larry E. Temple* 6 83.6
56 NR Thompson & Knight LLP* 2 76.8
57 NR Lowenstein Sandler PC 1 65.7
58 107 Gerrish McCreary Smith PC 1 64.8
59 NR McAfee & Taft* 5 63.8
60 34 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP* 4 61.7
61 81 Dorsey & Whitney LLP* 2 61.5
62 33 Barnes & Thornburg LLP 3 59.8
63 NR Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP 1 57.5
64 NR Proskauer Rose LLP 1 56.0
65 19 Hogan Lovells US LLP 2 54.9
66 NR Venable LLP 2 54.0
67 NR Quattlebaum Grooms Tull & Burrow PLLC 1 53.6
  NR Williams & Anderson 1 53.6
69 127 BuckleySandler LLP 1 53.2
70 NR Keller Rohrback LLP 2 52.4
71 NR Davis Wright Tremaine LLP* 4 51.7
72 NR Richard E. Knecht 2 51.5
73 NR Andrews Kurth LLP 3 51.3
74 127 Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick L.LP 2 50.2
75 NR Fairfield and Woods PC 2 46.6
76 72 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP 2 41.3
77 NR Husch Blackwell LLP 1 40.6
78 70 Schiff Hardin LLP 1 38.5
79 54 Choate Hall & Stewart LLP 1 37.4
80 NR Day Pitney LLP 2 35.0
81 41 Alston & Bird LLP* 3 34.2
82 102 Stuart Moore 1 32.5
83 39 Williams Mullen 2 31.9
84 68 McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP 1 31.1
85 86 Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP 2 29.1
86 NR Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP 1 26.7
87 NR Cranmore FitzGerald & Meaney 2 24.9
88 NR Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. 1 24.4
89 NR Davis Brown Law Firm 1 20.1
90 NR Foster Swift Collins & Smith P.C. 1 18.6
91 NR Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP 1 17.0
92 NR Rogers & Hardin LLP 1 16.0
93 NR Ice Miller LLP 1 15.4
93 101 Mark Barnes Law PC* 2 15.4
95 NR Martin Snow LLP 1 15.0
96 132 Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather L.LP* 5 13.2
97 124 Paul Foster Law Offices P.C.* 4 13.0
98 NR McGrath North Mullin & Kratz P.C. 1 12.3
98 NR Woods & Aitken LLP 1 12.3
100 NR Baird Holm LLP* 5 11.4
101 105 Barley Snyder LLC 1 10.1
  NR Rhoads & Sinon LLP 1 10.1
103 97 Hilburn Calhoon Harper Pruniski & Calhoun Ltd. 1 9.6
104 NR Foster Pepper PLLC 1 8.4
105 49 Bieging Shapiro & Barber LLP 1 8.0
  20 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates* 2 8.0
107 131 Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy Chtd.* 2 7.6
108 125 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP 2 7.3
109 NR Dan Karalis & Associates 1 7.2
110 77 Polsinelli Shughart PC 1 6.4
111 NR Springer & Haseltine 1 6.2
112 NR Keleher & McLeod PA 1 5.9
  NR McAndrews Allen & Matson PC 1 5.9
114 80 Frost Brown Todd LLC* 2 5.8
  91 Stites & Harbison PLLC 1 5.8
116 NR Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 1 5.4
117 NR Robinson & Cole LLP 1 5.0
118 NR McCarter & English LLP 1 4.8
119 3 Arnold & Porter LLP 1 4.6
120 NR Locke Lord LLP 1 4.3
121 NR Friday Eldredge & Clark* 2 3.9
122 NR Forshey Prostok LLP 1 3.3
123 NR McMahon Surovik Suttle P.C. 1 3.1
124 NR John Fleming Law 1 2.3
125 NR Ward and Smith PA 1 2.0
126 NR Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell* 2 1.1


*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers are included. Whole deals are included. Terminated deals are excluded. In the event advisers merge or an adviser is purchased by the parent of another adviser, SNL retroactively adjusts historic rankings to the single, highest-level adviser. If the buyer is already receiving credit for a particular deal, it will not receive additional credit following the merger.

Source:

SNL Financial
, Charlottesville, Va.
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